"Geoff was the epitome of the London man"

The moment I saw the headline, I was reminded of a piece I blogged about six years back, which appeared in the now-defunct online magazine Right Now. It was about the killing of elderly white people by young black men in South London, and while I disagreed with the author's thesis that the Stephen Lawrence killing and the Brixton nail bomb were some kind of unconscious, inchoate 'resistance movement', he wrote it as he saw it - and it wasn't outside my old primary school that people were being killed.

The link and site has long gone - but the magic of the Wayback Machine has brought J F Cronin's 'The Forgotten Victims' back to life - the victims being Constance Brown, 72, of Streatham, Elizabeth Pinhom, 96, of Herne Hill, Thomas Kidd, 61, of Tulse Hill, Ted Howell, 75, of Lewisham, Leslie Watkinson, 66, of Peckham, and Frank Dempsey, 56, of Clapham.

"I wouldn’t like to be an old person living in Bethnal Green" said musician Jah Wobble when he moved to leafy Cheshire. For Bethnal Green, read 'most of London outside the leafy south west postcodes'.

(UPDATE - at the opposite end of the age spectrum, while she's not a native, the treatment Michele Kirsch's kids received on a Stoke Newington estate is also relevant. The truism that racism isn't only restricted to white people is one that Guardianistas are happy to accept in theory. It's just giving chapter and verse they're uncomfortable with.)

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staybryte
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I remember that Kirsch piece. Didn't she pin up a photo of her sole black friend on the cork board when her daughter started noticing that it was always black children beating her up or stealing her stuff?

The amazing how few people acknowledge this reality.When I talk about this kind of thing to friends and family their attitude is, well yes it happens 'ofcourse', but they think of it as a kind of 1 in a million event that is hardly relevant in the 'real' world.

I might find her story amusing, a 'Heart of Darkness' voyage for a left winger, BUT...

...to inflict that on her children is unforgivable:

"It started to get ugly, a couple of years in, when one kid started to call my daughter names, all prefaced by “white”, so it was white witch, white poison, ugly white face. I wanted to kill this child, who was all of six or seven, but I had learnt my lesson from the last estate. Head down, don’t complain about the kids, don’t make eye contact with the parents. Then a couple of kids stole our bikes and, pathetically, left them lying in the road a few hundred feet away. My daughter begged me not to tell off the kids. "

"The link and site has long gone - but the magic of the Wayback Machine has brought J F Cronin's 'The Forgotten Victims' back to life - the victims being Constance Brown, 72, of Streatham, Elizabeth Pinhom, 96, of Herne Hill, Thomas Kidd, 61, of Tulse Hill, Ted Howell, 75, of Lewisham, Leslie Watkinson, 66, of Peckham, and Frank Dempsey, 56, of Clapham."

Well worth the resuscitation, that piece.

But how long would it survive the creepy-crawly left-liberal censorship on CIF?

The CIF self-loather mantra is that because the BNP was "routed" at the GE it follows that native people love being enriched.

I posted a migrationwatch link on the relationship between mass immigration and youth unemployment - completely obvious of course and only a left-liberal driveller would deny it.

Naturally the link was deleted with little delay. So migrationwatch is on their list of proscribed organisations despite its impressive record of accuracy; not the accuracy the perverse ones are interested in of course.

I could have put up the Express lead which was pretty well verbatim MW - but then of course you get the brainwashed comments about gutter press, right-wing press barons and so forth.

Only one agenda is allowed on CIF. The idiots delete the youtube where Mehdi Hasan tells them that they(non-muslims) live like animals. The creeps offer their throats to the blade.

The EDL march in Bradford much exercises them, but it is very obvious that what they are really worried about is another Manningham Labour Club episode

There's a letter in Max Hastings "Overlord" written by a private in the Ox and Bucks to his parents in Stoke Newington. Very grim in Normandy, constantly mortared the best hope of staying alive was a dirty hole in the ground.

If he could have seen enriched Stoke Newington 65years into the future would he have even gone into the army at all?

The commies and their sheeple dupes make the "anti-fascist struggle" the centre of their warped and largely ahistorical view.

But when a 90 year old who participated in the "anti-fascist struggle" is brutally beaten they don't give a toss.

Suppose that a Roma gypsy had received such treatment at indigenous hands?